Adrenal Insufficiency and Low Cortisol: Symptoms, Causes & Solutions – Dr.Berg

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hi guys today we’re gonna talk about adrenal insufficiency and a low cortisol I have a lot of videos on the adrenal gland and cortisol I put some links down below there’s a lot of information on this but I’m going to talk about a condition called Addison’s which is an autoimmune condition and what causes that now the interesting thing about this condition is that the gland the outside the glad you have the dream you have two adrenals you have an outside and an inside and the outside of the gland has to be about 90% destroyed before you really start seeing the major complications so by the time you have a full-blown Addison’s that gland is pretty well destroyed and you’re not able to output cortisol and several other hormones so there are a lot of different symptoms but the main are fatigue weakness weight loss okay when you have high cortisol you’ll actually gain weight low cortisol you actually lose weight you can’t sleep salt cravings like crazy if you have low cortisol adrenal insufficiency you need to be consuming a lot of sea salt and you don’t want to be consuming a lot of potassium especially if you’re not taking enough sea salt you need some potassium but the more potassium you have the less sodium you’re gonna have because they work on kind of a teeter-totter so if you take potassium you better be taking sea salt as well also you have no tolerance to stress you’re highly irritable and your body just doesn’t have that cortisol to counter stress cortisol is a fascinating hormone it helps the body to respond to stress all stress states it has like 200 different functions but this is one of them right here in different organs and different situations also it helps your blood pressure when the cortisol is low your blood pressure will go low when the cortisol is high your blood pressure tends to go high it also will slow the immune response so it’s an a good anti-inflammatory it suppresses the white blood cell and this is why in autoimmune conditions in factions and all types of pain and arthritis itching allergies they use prednisone or cortisone shots because that suppresses the immune system and the next one encounters insulin so think about this right here okay so we have our blood sugars right here we eat some food okay insulin kicks in right here and pushes down the blood sugars now it’s not really good to have excessively low blood sugars so chorus all comes in there to help your survival because that would be a stress and will start to elevate this pledge sugar to keep it up through here by releasing sugar and turning protein into sugar that’s what it does so it actually prevents encounters hypoglycemia it brings the blood sugars back here the problem if it’s too high okay it’ll actually raise your blood Sugar’s way over here and kind of nullify insulin to some degree and keep your Sugar’s high and then creates more insulin production and you go become a diabetic but when you have a low cortisol you don’t have this countering effect so you can end up with hypoglycemia so you have a lot of problems with that now what causes Addison’s well several things number one is TB tuberculosis okay that’s a big one I don’t know if you knew this but 25 percent of the population has TB and 90 percent of them actually have no symptoms this bacteria lies dormant and it can kind of be getting reactivated later in life so only ten percent of this group have the symptoms and the most common symptoms chronic cough blood in the mucus fever night sweats weight loss and the primary target for TB is the lungs but it can also go in other places as well in fact the number one cause of death from infections is from TB when you have TB you usually are always have low vitamin D so taking vitamin D is one of the best remedies to deal with TB and I would recommend taking at least 20,000 IU’s maybe 30,000 maybe even 40,000 that would be a very good thing to do also when you have honest UNS you’re also gonna have low vitamin d2 so vitamin D can act like cortisol so it’s not even really considered a vitamin it has hormone qualities and it acts like cortisol so vitamin D is really vital for anyone with an adrenal insufficiency or a little chorus all situation also taking B vitamins especially b1 very important for stress and that brings up another cause of Addison’s is stress or trauma could be physical it could be mental stress a sudden loss but it’s usually some type of huge shock to the system where the adrenal glands can shut down now the other thing is when you’re taking prednisone over a long period of time that weakens the gland and then you can actually end up with with that condition also if you are taking prednisone or cortisone for a period of time and you stop taking - suddenly that can actually induce this condition - funguses can also cause honest ins and the last thing I want to mention if you have adrenal insufficiency or low cortisol you need to be consuming a lot more sea salts okay way more than an average person because you’re losing the salt and you’re always craving salt because you need to solve to keep the volume the fluid there you need to salt for your electrolytes and your body there’s many many purposes for that alright and the last thing I want to show you is a great technique and I’m going to teach you that can help you with your stress so let’s kind of roll right into it alright we saved the best for last okay so what we’re going to do these points are a problem for everyone the adrenal glands are deep very deep on top of the kidney deep in the abdomen okay so we’re not we there’s no way we can contact the adrenals however there’s a lot of acupressure points around this there’s a lot of nerve points around the adrenals in this area and in Chinese medicine there’s acupressure points go right along the side we’re gonna be kind of tapping into that and releasing a lot of the stress in this area around the adrenals so her belly button is right here okay so we’re gonna just go right to the right of it her right and down about an inch and we’re gonna press down in here now this is I’m showing you how to do it on someone else but we’re going to show you how to do it on yourself so I like to take my thumb in my middle finger again I’m not flipping you off and I’m gonna press down in here to her tolerance and I’m actually trying to find some tenderness this isn’t too bad so if I don’t feel any tender so I’m going to kind of sneak up a little bit and I’m gonna do all these points up on this line about an inch off the midline okay so we’re gonna come in here press in here and I’m going to go to the left and to the right a little bit just to kind of find these stress pockets you can’t see them if I can find these yeah there’s a couple right here and then once I find it I’ll just hold it for a little bit until it releases and what I’m doing is I’m extracting stress from this area of your body and this produces some really cool effects relaxation sleep like I’ve had people had the best sleep in their life so this is a really important area of the body that like no one works on so now as I’m coming up to the right side you do have the gallbladder on the right side but that’s kind of tucked through this area you’re not going to it’s not going to be a problem when you press on that you just have to press to the tolerance of the person so you’re not going too deep because it could be sore again work that’s why I’d like to have you do this on yourself so you can adjust the pressure so you’re not you know going too deep so some people say well is it dangerous to press in your abdomen I’m like no why would it be was it dangerous to press in your muscle in your thigh I mean you have a layer of fat okay and you also have I didn’t mean to say that everyone has like a layer of fat and then organs are tu